MY BABY LEFT ME

Created on 15/04/2003
Latest update on 06/01/2023

Artist: Arthur Crudup
Author: Arthur Crudup
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1950

Covers:

1956:

Elvis Presley [same intro, label and producer (Steve Sholes) as the original; using four lines from Crudup's You Know That I Love You]

1956:

Al Runyan [early Elvis impersonation on Gateway]

1961:

Wanda Jackson

1964:

Dave Berry

1970:

Creedence Clearwater Revival

1971:

Grease Band

1972:

Buffy Sainte-Marie

1973:

John Lennon [as Since My Baby Left Me]

1975:

Slade

1977:

Dave Edmunds

1978:

Ray Campi

1982:

John Hammond

1993:

Danny Gatton [in medley with Mystery Train and That's All Right]

1998:

Paul Lamb

2007:

Robert Gordon & Chris Spedding

Presley also cut Arthur's That's All Right and So Glad You're Mine. Crudup used the same melody on other songs (Keep On Drinking). Some claim he only had two tunes, a slow one and a fast one. Different words sets them apart.

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